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I receive from the President and from the Chief of the Bureau.

The laws to which I refer, should they receive your approval would not come to me with the sanctions of my proper superiors and I could recognize and enforce them only in so far as they are in accordance with the orders by which I am governed— it seems to me therefore that if your Excellency would withhold your signature until the bills can be sent to Washington and submitted to the President, that a a possible unpleasant conflict of authority, prejudicial to the very interest which we wish to foster, might be avoided.

The Chairman of the joint Committee of the Legislature has promised to send me copies of these laws as soon as they are printed. When he does so, I will at once forward them to Washington and if they are returned with the approval of the President they will of course form the rule by which I will be governed. Should they not be approved your Excellency and the Legislature might wish to modify them, or perhaps even withdraw them from the public.